Royal BC Museum - What's Behind the Scene

Behind the Scenes

Step behind the scenes of one of Canada's most important natural and cultural museums. Slip on a backstage pass and follow your guide on a winding tour through labs, backrooms and workshops. On the Exhibition Art and Special FX Tour, step into the design studio where craftspeople transform concept drawings into room-filling dioramas. On the Paleontology Revealed Tour, examine a newly-arrived Cretaceous fossil. On the Entomology Revealed Tour, peer into a jar of baby spiders. Mingle with curators and craftspeople. Meet the people who bring the exhibits and collections to life. See the museum the way they do: as a living, breathing adventure.

Why you should visit

Feel like a VIP as you join a small group of visitors to wander behind the scenes--literally--of a museum exhibit.

Tour the industrial light and magic of the exhibit prop shops.

Ask a paleontologist how they recreated Woolly mammoth fur.

Watch an entomologist pin a dragon fly.

Browse historical maps and photographs in the BC Archives.

Wander galleries that take you back in time, under the ocean, into a forest, and aboard an explorer's ship.

Weather

Coastal Victoria boasts the mildest climate in Canada. Summer (June to September) is sunny and winter (December to March) sees increased rainfall but rarely any snow.